This site uses the Akismet anti-SPAM plugin. To date, Akismet has caught (blocked) 16,819 SPAM comments. I think it’s flagged about ten comments incorrectly—a very low error rate. Just thought you’d like to know.

In the last day or so, a significant milestone was passed here on flyingnerd.com: 20,000 visits!

This site came into being on 20 July 2005. (Posts dated earlier were Formula 1 rants that I had shared previously with a group of friends.)

Some interesting stats from the last two years:

208 posts
356 comments
2,968 attempted spam comments detected and [...]

I’ve updated to the latest version of the excellent WordPress content management system.

As ever, if you come across any problems, please leave a comment.

Latest bug fixes and security code. Please post a comment if you find anything broken.

Traffic here on flyingnerd.com seems to have picked up markedly in the last few weeks.

I noted back in February when unique site visits passed 6,000. That milestone took around 18 months (around 330 visits per month). In the last two months, the total has raced ahead to 10,000 site visits (2,000 visits per month in [...]

Looking for the latest news about Mark Webber’s 2007 Formula 1 exploits for Red Bull Racing? Look no further than flyingnerd.com!

Courtesy of Google’s AJAX News Bar, this site now includes a feed of latest news items about Mark and Red Bull Racing. Look towards the bottom of the sidebar on the right hand side.

visitors to this site, that is…

As ever, if you encounter a problem do please leave a comment.

Not much happening around here for a few more days. I am once again co-ordinating Carols in the Park for Macquarie Anglican Churches.

Venue is Yamble Reserve, Quarry Road, Ryde. The event takes place at 6pm on Sunday, 17 December.

Woo hoo.

Now running WordPress 2.05. Let me know if you come across any problems.

I implemented the Akismet anti-spam technology on this site nearly a year ago.

In that time, Akismet has detected and blocked 311 spam comments. One (yes, one) spam comment got through.

I reckon that’s pretty good performance for a free tool.

Not much happening on flyingnerd.com lately. Sorry. Been busy. And distracted.

Please post a comment if you see anything broken.

Thanks.

Revised ‘logo’, now incorporated in header
New typeface for header
New ‘favicon’ (clear cache to see it)

Please let me know if you come across any broken links or other irregularities.

After following a relatively simple set of instructions, the Flying Nerd site has been updated to Wordpress 2.0.

Users shouldn’t see much different. But the management back-end is massively upgraded and looks very nice indeed.

If you come across any issues, please add a comment to this post.

(And yes, I know there is a slight displacement to [...]

The host that powers the Flying Nerd has just increased the storage and bandwidth allowances that apply to the $US7.95 per month plan that I use.

I am now entitled to 20GB of storage and 1TB (yes, 1,000GB give or take a bit) of data transfers monthly.

And both of these increase every week. The storage entitlement [...]

Delete your old bookmark and make a new one!

Oooohhh aaahhhhh.

The Akismet spam prevention plug-in for WordPress detected and blocked its first flyingnerd.com comment spam last night.

Two attempts to place comment spam were detected. Both were intercepted and blocked. No intervention on my part has been required. So far, so good.